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Jay Lappin, MSW, LCSW is a New Jersey licensed marriage and family counselor and social worker, as well as NASW Clinical Diplomat. He is board member emeritus of the Minuchin Center for the Family, adjunct faculty for the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education and clinical supervisor for Drexel University’s Master of Family Therapy Program. For fourteen years, Jay studied, then taught and supervised at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. For fifteen years, he was the principle trainer and consultant for Delaware’s Department of Services to Youth, Children & Their Families “Family Focus” program—a “whole systems” initiative involving all three operating divisions and their personnel including a pioneer program in family reunification. He has also served on the boards and held offices for the New Jersey American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy and the American Family Therapy Academy. He has written on Structural Family Therapy from a cross cultural perspective, implementing larger systems change and conducting family sessions. He has been a contributing editor for the Psychotherapy Networker and interviewed Salvador Minuchin for psychotherapy.net. Jay has conducted workshops, lectures and supervised throughout the United States, Germany and Taiwan. Closer to home, in New Jersey, he’s been in private practice for forty years. Jaylappin.com

Jean McLendon, LCSW, LMFT, is the past president of The Virginia Satir Global Network and is currently the Director of Training Programs at Satir Systems, a professional therapy and coaching center in North Carolina. She trained with the late Virginia Satir for nearly twenty years and has been published in several journals and books. She has been on the faculties of the University of North Carolina School of Social Work, and The NIMH Staff College and served as faculty specialist with the Whole Systems Design Graduate Program at Seattle University. Jean travels widely applying the Satir Growth Model to a variety of contexts, situations, countries and cultures.

Jeff Hickey, LCSW, CST is the director and president of the Chicago Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (chicagoeft.com). He has been practicing and teaching Emotionally Focused Couples therapy for over 15 years and over that time has presented many trainings and workshops around the country. He has also presented on the intersection of sexuality and couple relationships, an area of growing interest among clinicians. Jeff is also a certified sex therapist and has over 30 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of couples presenting with a wide variety of concerns, including trauma and sexuality.
  
  
  

Jeff Katzman, MD, is Vice Chair, Clinical and Academic Affairs with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He studied at Stanford University, UC San Diego, and UCLA. He is Chair of the Education Committee of the American Association of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. His focus has been on psychodynamic therapy and attachment.

Jeff Sharp is a psychologist in private practice in Oakland, California. He has taught at numerous graduate schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and supervised interns at several clinics. He has been involved in men's work in many forums throughout the past thirty years. Among his recent publications are articles on the training of psychotherapists, the crucial role of mentoring in our profession, and attachment and psychotherapy. Jeff became involved, fairly late in his life, in cycling, scuba diving, and percussion. He finds that these activities, along with raising a family, provide an inspiring complement to practicing psychotherapy. For further information about Jeff visit his website at www.DrJeffSharp.com.

Jeffrey Chernin, PhD, is currently practicing as a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, with 28 years of experience in private practice and community health centers. He has authored 3 books, including his most recent, Achieving Intimacy: How to Have a Loving Relationship that Lasts (available on Amazon), as well as magazine articles on relationships, therapy and mental health. He has taught psychology and counseling courses at Antioch and Chapman Universities and has provided workshops on topics including personal growth, substance abuse, stress management, and grief. To learn more, please visit his website. 

Irvin D. Yalom, MD, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and renowned psychotherapist, is the author of many internationally bestselling books, including Love’s Executioner, The Gift of Therapy, Becoming Myself, and When Nietzsche Wept.

Marilyn Yalom, PhD, was a world-famous professor of French and comparative literature, a pioneering scholar in gender studies, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, the author of numerous articles on literature and women’s history, and books including A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, How the French Invented Love, as well as her final book released posthumously, Innocent Witnesses: Childhood Memories of World War II.

Irvin and Marilyn Yalom were married for sixty-five years.

Psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom, MD has been a major figure in the field of psychotherapy since he first wrote The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy in 1970 (now in it’s 5th edition). Other significant contributions have included Existential Psychotherapy, and NY Times Bestseller Loves Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy. He has written four novels on psychotherapy: When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the Couch, The Schopenhauer Cure, and The Spinoza Problem.  His works, translated into over 20 languages, have been widely read by therapists and non-therapists alike. Visit Dr. Yalom’s website.